אַרְבָּעִיםʼarbâʻîym
forty
Pronunciation: ar-baw-eem' · Hebrew/Aramaic (Old Testament) · H705
Meanings
a forty
1. without other number
a. usually apposition before noun (Judges 3:11; 1 Samuel 4:18; Amos 2:10)
b. after plural noun (Genesis 32:16; Nehemiah 5:15)
c. forty (blows) may he smite him. (Genesis 18:29; Deuteronomy 25:3)
2. with other numbers
a. before unit, + singular noun (1 Kings 14:21; 1 Kings 15:10; 2 Kings 14:23)
b. after unit (Leviticus 25:8; Numbers 1:41; Numbers 2:28)
c. with hundreds (Genesis 5:18; Job 42:16; Genesis 47:28)
3. as ordinal (Deuteronomy 1:3; Numbers 33:38; 1 Chronicles 26:31)
Same root
Where it appears
Appears 135 times in the Bible.
- Genesis 5:13 After the birth of Mahalalel, Kenan lived another 840 years, and he had other sons and daughters.
- Genesis 7:4 Seven days from now I will make the rains pour down on the earth. And it will rain for forty days and forty nights, until I have wiped from the earth all the living things I have created.”
- Genesis 7:12 The rain continued to fall for forty days and forty nights.
- Genesis 7:17 For forty days the floodwaters grew deeper, covering the ground and lifting the boat high above the earth.
- Genesis 8:6 After another forty days, Noah opened the window he had made in the boat
- Genesis 18:28 Suppose there are only forty-five righteous people rather than fifty? Will you destroy the whole city for lack of five?” And the Lord said, “I will not destroy it if I find forty-five righteous people there.”
See every passage
- Genesis 5:13, 7:4, 7:12, 7:17, 8:6, 18:28, 18:29, 25:20, 26:34, 32:15, 47:28, 50:3
- Exodus 16:35, 24:18, 26:19, 26:21, 34:28, 36:24, 36:26
- Leviticus 25:8
- Numbers 1:21, 1:25, 1:33, 1:41, 2:11, 2:15, 2:19, 2:28, 13:25, 14:33, 14:34, 26:7, 26:18, 26:41, 26:50, 32:13, 33:38, 35:6, 35:7
- Deuteronomy 1:3, 2:7, 8:2, 8:4, 9:9, 9:11, 9:18, 9:25, 10:10, 25:3, 29:5
- Joshua 4:13, 5:6, 14:7, 14:10, 21:41
- Judges 3:11, 5:8, 5:31, 8:28, 12:6, 12:14, 13:1
- 1 Samuel 4:18, 17:16
- 2 Samuel 2:10, 5:4, 10:18, 15:7
- 1 Kings 2:11, 4:26, 6:17, 7:3, 7:38, 11:42, 14:21, 15:10, 19:8
- 2 Kings 2:24, 8:9, 10:14, 12:1, 14:23
- 1 Chronicles 5:18, 12:36, 19:18, 26:31, 29:27
- 2 Chronicles 9:30, 12:13, 16:13, 22:2, 24:1
- Ezra 2:8, 2:10, 2:24, 2:25, 2:34, 2:38, 2:66
- Nehemiah 5:15, 7:13, 7:15, 7:28, 7:29, 7:36, 7:41, 7:44, 7:62, 7:68, 9:21, 11:13
- Job 42:16
- Psalms 95:10
- Jeremiah 52:30
- Ezekiel 4:6, 29:11, 29:12, 29:13, 41:2, 46:22
- Amos 2:10, 5:25
- Jonah 3:4
Source: Brown, Driver and Briggs, Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain; markup by unfoldingWord, CC BY (github.com/unfoldingWord/Brown-Driver-Briggs-Enhanced).